Glinus

Glinus oppositifolius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Molluginaceae
Genus: Glinus
Species: G. bainesii – G. herniarioides – G. lotoides – G. microphyllus – G. oppositifolius – G. orygioides – G. radiatus – G. runkewitzii – G. sessiliflorus – G. setiflorus

Name

Glinus L. Sp. Pl. 1: 463. (1753)

• Type species: Glinus lotoides L. Sp. Pl. 1: 463. (1753)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Nemallosis Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 3: 34 (1837)
  • Paulo-wilhelmia Hochst. in Flora 27: 17 (1844)
  • Plenckia Raf. in Specchio Sci. 1: 194 (1814), nom. rej.
  • Sherardia Boehm. in Defin. Gen. Pl., ed. 3: 408 (1760), nom. illeg.
  • Tryphera Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 549 (1826)
  • Wycliffea Ewart & A.H.K.Petrie in Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, n.s., 38: 167 (1926)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental:Tropics & Subtropics. Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Introduced into: Arizona, Baleares, California, Gulf States, Kansas, Mauritius, Missouri, Réunion References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 463. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Thulin, M., Moore, A.J., El-Seedi, H., Larsson, A., Christin, P.A. & Edwards, E.J. 2016. Phylogeny and generic delimitation in Molluginaceae, new pigment data in Caryophyllales, and the new family Corbichoniaceae. Taxon 65(4): 775–793. DOI: 10.12705/654.6 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Glinus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 17. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2017. Glinus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Apr. 21. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2017. Glinus. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 21 2017.

Vernacular names

English: sweetjuice
فارسی: شیرینه
suomi: Mehukit
עברית: אפרורית
hrvatski: Tučnjak
ไทย: สกุลสะเดาดิน, ขวง
українська: М'яковолосець
Tiếng Việt: Chi Rau đắng

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